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MONCTON NATURE NEWS
June 21, 2025
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**Michelle
Spencer photographed a colourful snail she spotted at Kingsbrae Garden in St.
Andrews. Our snail expert consultant, Fred Schueler, felt it to be the same
species as in yesterday’s edition but with variation. Fred suggested it to be the white-lipped
snail (Cepaea hortensis) based on no dark line along the lip of the aperture.
**Fred and Lynn Dube were fixing a rock pathway when they came across many red-backed salamanders. A couple of photos were taken, one with at least three salamanders visible. They also photographed a wild columbine flower growing at the edge of their Lower Coverdale driveway in a beautiful pink colour.
In addition, they had
a white admiral butterfly visit their yard on Friday. Its cooperation allowed for open and
closed-wing photos. It appeared to be thoroughly enjoying Saturday's solar power!
**On Last
Monday, Brian Stone searched the Taylor Rd in Second North River for early
summer arrivals and recent regulars. Large dump trucks were working
somewhere up the road beyond Brian's search zone, and he had to look for
photo subjects between huge dust clouds caused by racing trucks that
obscured everything for several minutes at a time. His first search area
was a bog alongside the dirt road, where he was hoping to spot interesting butterflies,
but the few seen escaped his camera's lens. A pleasant surprise, though, was a
group of at least 23 pink arethusa bog orchids scattered throughout one
corner of the bog.
Some
butterflies that did get photographed in other spots along the road were common
ringlet butterfly, northern azure butterfly, silvery blue
butterfly, Arctic skipper, hobomok skipper, many northern
crescent butterflies, and a special guest ... a silvery checkerspot
butterfly not often seen by Brian. An immature male and mature female forktail
damselflies posed on grass at the edge of a pond, and a beaverpond
clubtail dragonfly joined a young-looking chalk-fronted corporal
dragonfly in the lineup.
Nelson Poirier.
Nature Moncton
